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May 16, 2026 Weekly insights on Israeli tech, venture capital, and AI

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CEO Interview: Watchdox SaaS Document Protection

How many times did you hesitate before sending a sensitive document through gmail or IM?  Israeli start up Confidela, created WatchDox, a SaaS platform for organizations to send documents securely, control and track who views, edits, prints or forwards them.…

Deloitte Survey Shows VCs are Cutting Back On Start Ups

The annual Venture Capital global survey by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) and the NVCA shows that when it comes to investing in start ups, venture capitalists are cutting back. The survey gathered the opinion of 725 partners in venture capital…

EyeSight Will Not Be The Wii For Mobile Games

Mobile gaming started long before the iPhone (remember ‘snake’?) with revenues of over $5 billion in 2008. I recently came across an Israeli start up called EyeSight, which is trying to grab a slice of the pie by offering touchless control…

Israeli VC Funds Raised $793 Million in 2008

The capital available for investment now reaches $1 Billion, of which $400 million is intended for first investments in high-tech companies and the remainder reserved for follow-on investments. Forecasts for 2009 are pretty grim - IVC estimates only $300 million to be raised this year

IVC: Investment dollars in Seed Israeli start ups down 28%

According to IVC Research, 28% of the venture capital investments were made in seed stage companies in 2008, compared to 43% in 2007. More than 30% of the vc funds in Israel made no investments in seed companies in 2008. Greylock…